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    George Eliot
    “..for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
    ― George Eliot, Middlemarch
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    Lord Byron
    “Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.”
    ― Lord George Gordon Byron
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah
    tags: inspirational
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: adaptation, change, open-mindedness, self-improvement
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Immaturity
    tags: family, humor
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
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    Plato
    “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
    ― Plato
    tags: darkness, dishonesty, fear, light, willful-ignorance
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    Plato
    “Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.”
    ― Plato
    tags: discipline, education, mentoring, philosophy
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    Plato
    “According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.”
    ― Plato, The Symposium
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    Plato
    “The measure of a man is what he does with power.”
    ― Plato
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    Plato
    “Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.”
    ― Plato
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    Plato
    “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
    ― Plato
    tags: attributed-no-source, compassion, kindness
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    Plato
    “Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
    ― Plato
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    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    “My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
    Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
    ― Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias
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    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
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    Mark Twain
    “God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: americans, geography, war
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    Robert Frost
    “Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.”
    ― Robert Frost
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    Aristotle
    “Hope is a waking dream.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: dreams, hope
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    Aristotle
    “He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: fear, freedom
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    Aristotle
    “Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: crime, poverty, revolution, society
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    Aristotle
    “It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: peace, peacemaking, politics, war
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    Aristotle
    “The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: friendship
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    Aristotle
    “To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: inspirational, philosophy, writing
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    Pericles
    “Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. ”
    ― Pericles
    tags: politics
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    Pericles
    “What you leave behind is not what is engraved on stone momuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.”
    ― Pericles
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    Pericles
    “Wait for that wisest of all counselores, Time.”
    ― Pericles
    tags: confession, counselors, country-foods, good, happy, joy
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    Pericles
    “Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.”
    ― Pericles
    tags: freedom
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    Pericles
    “The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives.”
    ― Pericles
    tags: hero
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    Virgil
    “Fléctere si néqueo súperos Acheronta movebo - If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.”
    ― Virgil, The Aeneid
    tags: aeneid, book-vii, line-312
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    Virgil
    “Death twitches my ear;
    'Live,' he says...
    'I'm coming.”
    ― Virgil
    tags: carpe-diem, creepy, death, death-and-dying, inspirational, living, philosophical, philosophy, seize-the-day
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